We’d like to see

• Active local and regional Scottish groups;
• Acting together as a single organisation;
• A primary focus on involvement in struggles;
• Propaganda etc. being secondary to that but taken from it;
• Bringing together all class-struggle libertarians who’d be able to work together like this.

So, a new organisation linked to and acting closely with other groups but not a part of them.

Our Organisation

The decision-making process of the organisation will be structured so as to maintain strategic focus. By strategic focus, we mean that thought is conducted top-to-bottom, first of all determining ultimate aims, then strategies to reach those aims, then tactics to carry out those strategies. Furthermore, the decision-making process is never abandoned – it is permanent and iterative, with feedback from results on the ground improving and refining theory. Only the most essential principles are set in stone.

To this end the agreed positions of Praxis will be divided into “general” (or strategic) and “specific” (or tactical). A high degree of theoretical unity on strategy will be important to the function of the organisation. While the organisation will act with tactical unity, theoretical agreement on tactical questions is less essential.

Too often, tactics-as-ideology has been allowed to divide the socialist movement. For example, one revolutionary may desire to build syndicalist unions, whilst another favours building rank-and-file movements within existing trade unions. One supports the cooperative movement as a method of reform towards freedom, whilst another believes that a sudden uprising will sweep the old world aside.

In the usual way of thinking, these differences are irreconcilable. In the strategic process followed by Praxis, each ideology becomes one tactical option. Both syndicalist unions and rank-and-file movements are desirable- Praxis asks you to consider how much more desirable they are in combination and mutual support.

A free, democratic, communal society is the aim. Building power for the class is the method. The means by which the class obtains democratically-controlled power is not a matter of ideology, but a matter of flexible tactical decision-making. There are many areas where no person has a complete answer, and Praxis will note these gaps in our knowledge and attempt to fill them through monitoring the results of action.

The membership will agree an overarching plan, and each branch will produce a local action plan in line with this. Local action plans will include projects, timetables, and monitorable outcomes. Regular reviews of progress will take place, and plans will be adjusted in line with these reviews.

A project plan must answer the following questions:

• What is the project?
• What resources are required?
• What outcomes would indicate success, partial success, and failure?
• What are the odds of each outcome?
• How does this contribute to overall strategy?

Project updates, post-mortems, and analyses will be distributed to all groups. Where a tactic has proved especially successful, it may be incorporated into the overarching plan as an example of best-practise.

In this way we shall always continually improve our tactics and create a culture of organising in a serious an effective manner.